• Plum@lemmy.world
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    58 minutes ago

    Body hair is deeply stigmatized. Bodies and bodily functions are stigmatized.

    It’s the same reason why sanitary pad commercials use clear blue liquid for absorptive demonstrations and not body temperature strawberry preserves. Or heaven forfend actual uterine lining…

    Smiling happy women reclining in a bath, shaving off foam to reveal glossy perfect legs, is shorthand for the reality of what actually happens.

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.today
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      48 minutes ago

      I hate how hair on a woman has become shameful for the past few decades. When I first saw my now-wife, it was with “hairy” legs because she was done with dating. Hairy like you can see a bit of hair, not like thick or dark. When I asked her out, she came on our date shaved.

      She doesn’t care now that we were married. But even she mentions that back then a lot of guys called it out as a problem for her.

  • Zier@fedia.io
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    2 hours ago

    That’s because advertising is as fake as a Hollywood movie. Never believe an ad.